Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Libby closing arguments set
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007
NEWS
Indian police release sketches of 2 suspects in bombing of
India-Pakistan train
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Leaders of India and Pakistan pressed ahead Monday with their peace
process, hours after twin bombs apparently intended to disrupt their
relations sparked a fire that killed 66 people aboard a train that links
the two rivals.
Closing arguments to begin Tuesday in CIA leak case
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Prosecutors who spent more than three years on the CIA leak case, like
the defense lawyers on the other wide, have been given just three hours
to make their final arguments to jurors.
Rice huddles with Arab allies over Palestinian power-sharing deal
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas
huddled separately Tuesday with Arab allies alarmed by Abbas' new
power-
sharing pact with Hamas militants.
MONEY
Jet travelers 'abandoned' in Cheyenne
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Two planeloads of passengers - 110 people - whose flights had been
diverted to Cheyenne after a blizzard hit Denver's airport on Wednesday,
Dec. 20, were shocked the next day when the pilots and flight attendants
boarded the aircraft and flew to other cities without them.
Pressure is on sellers in Sacramento
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Here's an alarming fact about Sacramento's housing market: About one of
every five existing homes on the market is a "short sale." That means
the home is worth less than the value of the mortgage, and the lender is
willing to accept less than full repayment of the loan to avoid
foreclosure, says Tracey Saizan, president of the Sacramento Association
of Realtors.
Stocks usually thrive as presidential election nears
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The relationship between politics and stock market profitability tends
to be most cordial in the year prior to a presidential election. It is
that quirk
that should provide some solace to investors concerned about another
calendar-related anomaly on Wall Street: the fact that stocks have not
had a 2% pullback since July 14.
